Example sentences for: wallpaper

How can you use “wallpaper” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Explicitly personal attacks on the president provide exactly the "background music, the wallpaper" that Clinton would want as a backdrop.

  • A late painting like Christine Lerolle Embroidering (1897), with its complex weave of frames within frames, is a veritable catalog of the craftsmanlike bric-a-brac Renoir admired: the embroidery frame constructed of bamboo; William Morris wallpaper; a Japanese vase; the rough-hewed paintings of Degas and Renoir himself that the connoisseurs are inspecting in the background.

  • It's probably because the director, Pat O'Connor, can't tell the difference between images that express Friel's themes and Hibernian wallpaper, and because his idea of expansive, pictorial beauty proves no substitute for Friel's powerfully compressed stage pictures.

  • Today, 35 years after Wilson's jibe, it remains the drab wallpaper of the book world.

  • Spurling informs us that the pattern on the wallpaper and tablecloth comes from a bolt of blue cotton cloth that Matisse glimpsed from a bus and that in the course of revising the painting he changed the background from blue to red.


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